Security Engineer, Corporate Services Security

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DESCRIPTION:

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Boston, MA, USA

Corporate Services Security (CPSS) is the Amazon security team aligned to Finance & Global Business Services (FGBS), People eXperience & Technology (PXT), Legal, and Communications and Corporate Responsibility (CCR) business organizations.

Our Mission is to protect and safeguard Amazon's corporate services, systems, and data. Through proactive engagement with the development teams, we understand the dynamic business processes that run Amazon, and enable our stakeholders to innovate, build, and scale securely. The Product Security Team within CPSS supports numerous applications built using AWS Services. Apart from work, we provide opportunities for our engineers to pursue projects they are passionate about while maintaining work life harmony.

Key job responsibilities
A successful candidate will need a combination of application security, technical, and communication skills, as well as the ability to handle a mix of disparate tasks and include projects in addition to managing security review activities. This role will provide career growth opportunities as you gain new security skills in the course of your duties.

Perform Design and Security Reviews to determine the level of risk they present to our customers, and then accordingly prioritize their remediation in conjunction with the service team.

Participate in efforts to promote security throughout the Company and build good working relationships within the team and with others across Amazon
Demonstrate high capacity and tolerance for context switching and interruptions while remaining productive and effective

Escalate issues to senior leadership when issues are not progressing at the correct pace based on impact to ensure we are putting customers first.

Explore building and improving our tooling to make your own life easier and share that benefit with all our engineers globally.
Assistance with recruiting activities and administrative work

Creating, updating, and maintaining threat models for a wide variety of software projects

Manual and Automated Secure Code Review, primarily in Java, Python and Java script

Development of security automation tools

Adversarial security analysis using tools to augment manual effort

Provide Security training and outreach for internal development teams

Provide Security architecture and design guidance to application development teams

Independently solve systemic, complex security problems that require novel methods or approaches

Influence your team's and partners' process, priorities, and choices by using data to improve security outcomes

Provide technical and strategic guidance to senior leaders and stakeholders through effective oral and written communications

A day in the life
As a Security Engineer, you will collaborate with application development teams to ensure we keep our customers safe while developing novel services. In a given day, you might be inspecting an application's code for security issues, building a new framework to help our software developers build faster and more securely, or fine-tuning the design for a new service. The ideal candidate combines technical acumen with an ability to lead by influence and communicate clearly.

Technically, this person will be a security specialist with one or more areas of deep expertise within application security. They will clearly articulate risks to technical and non-technical audiences alike. Successful candidates will effectively harmonize disparate opinions while effectively prioritizing risks to guide their partners towards secure solutions.

The Corporate Services Security (CPSS) Product Security Team is responsible for securing the applications, infrastructure and data developed across People eXperience and Technology (PXT), Finance & Global Business Services (FGBS), Legal and Communications and Corporate Responsibility (CCR). We partner with builder teams to minimize security risks…